{"id":3727,"date":"2013-05-31T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:42:38","slug":"finding-our-familys-stories-in-newspapers-even-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/finding-our-familys-stories-in-newspapers-even-the-children.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding Our Family\u2019s Stories in Newspapers\u2014Even the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogists want to find every story about their family\u2014but where do you turn to find more information about the life of a youngster that passed away? Remarkably\u2014even for those family members who died very young\u2014you can find out more about their lives in newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>When tragedy strikes a family in the loss of a young child, it would seem impossible to find stories that would tell us more about the deceased toddler\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where newspapers can be a big help to family historians. For example, little Paul McBride died at the age of four back in 1889\u2014yet look at how much we learn from his newspaper obituary.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the young child\u2019s newspaper obituary gives us the core genealogical facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name: Paul Montgomery McBride<\/li>\n<li>Age: 4 years, 8 months and 17 days<\/li>\n<li>Birthplace: Pierre, South Dakota<\/li>\n<li>Youngest son of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. McBride<\/li>\n<li>Buried in Riverside Cemetery<\/li>\n<li>Died 19 October 1889, at \u201ctwenty minutes to 8 o\u2019clock\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Since his father was a minister, a pastor of another faith, the Rev. E. S. Wallace, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, conducted \u201cthe Episcopal burial service\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Because of the \u201cinfectious nature of the disease, no services will be held at the family residence\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is a lot of detail from the obituary of such a young person.<\/p>\n<p>With some surprise, I found that Paul\u2019s obituary told us even more about his life.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3728\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aberdeen-daily-news-newspaper-1020-1889-paul-mcbride-obituary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3728\" title=\"aberdeen-daily-news-newspaper-1020-1889-paul-mcbride-obituary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aberdeen-daily-news-newspaper-1020-1889-paul-mcbride-obituary.png\" alt=\"obituary for Paul Montgomery McBride, Aberdeen Daily News newspaper article 20 October 1889\" width=\"519\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aberdeen-daily-news-newspaper-1020-1889-paul-mcbride-obituary.png 519w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aberdeen-daily-news-newspaper-1020-1889-paul-mcbride-obituary-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aberdeen-daily-news-newspaper-1020-1889-paul-mcbride-obituary-373x300.png 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aberdeen Daily News (Aberdeen, South Dakota), 20 October 1889, page 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We also learn the following information about Paul from this old newspaper article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was called \u201cLittle Paul\u201d<\/li>\n<li>He got along well with the other children<\/li>\n<li>He was a quiet, well-behaved child\u2014traits often commented on by other adults<\/li>\n<li>The week before his death, a Sunday School teacher gave Paul a copy of the small Calvary Catechism book used at that time in the Episcopal Church to teach children the Gospel<\/li>\n<li>He liked that gift so much that it was buried with him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Little Paul McBride was not just a notation, a genealogical statistic\u2014he was a likeable, fun four-year-old boy. He was given a small catechism book and he loved it. As you get to know him, don\u2019t you want to go right out and find a copy of that book and read what he would have read?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the story of the lives of our family members makes all the difference. Newspapers provide those stories that we can add to our family tree.<\/p>\n<p>Dig into GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all\">newspaper archives<\/a> and find the stories of your family.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let them be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article showing how old newspapers can help genealogists learn more about the life of a youngster in their family tree who passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3732,12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-children","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/illustration-1218-2015-featured-graphic-children.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}